<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>So in the original class file code, would that go right before the "Acknowledgements" (line 9, starting at \newenvironment)?<div><br></div><div>-N<br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">% ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br>%<br>% The acknowledgements environment puts a large, bold, centered<br>% "Acknowledgements" label at the top of the page.<br><br>\newenvironment{acknowledgments}<br>{<br> \newpage<br> \thispagestyle{plain}<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\@mkboth{\acknowledgename}{\acknowledgename}<br> \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Acknowledgments}<br>% \vspace*{-.8in} % NAP comment out May 2008<br> {\centerline{\bf {\LARGE Acknowledgments}}}<br> \vspace*{.2in}<br>}<br>{}</span><br><div><div>On 14 May 2008, at 6:53 PM, Morten Høgholm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:25:31 +0200, Nathan Paxton wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I would like to have the environment act like chapters, sections, et<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cetera, and not indent the first paragraph of content in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">environment. I assume this is simple, but I've never delved much into<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">writing latex macros, so I'd appreciate some help.<br></blockquote><br>The macro you are looking for is called \@afterheading. Just put it as the last thing before the text to be input.<br>-- <br>Morten<br>-------------------------- Helpful Info --------------------------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>Mac-TeX Website: <a href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">----------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Nathan A. Paxton</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Ph.D. Candidate</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dept. of Government, Harvard University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resident Tutor</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Winthrop House, Harvard University</font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">napaxton AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton</a></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">=======================================================================================================</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">When you have to stay eight years away from California, you live in a perpetual state of homesickness.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> - Ronald Reagan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. 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